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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Tips on job hunting. I wrote to my friends about ways to hunt for a job. Help yourself!

Preparation by writing cover letter and resume in a way that tell your story in concise and sincere words. It is easy to understand this, but very few people write personable and meaningful cover letters. Write cover-letter like writing to a good old friend, someone you are not trying to impress but simply to tell him or her what you have been doing in the recent past, what you have learned each time, what have you made you a better person and better worker, what would you plan to do in the future, what your dream since you were young and how that influenced your goal in life. The person would love to learn more from you, if you wrote in a intelligent way.
Your résumé is simply an extension of your cover letter. It is the middle part part of your master piece novel. Make it a book in one page, each paragraph is a chapter in your professional life. Never make it a dry laundry list, don't use bullet points, don't make it a standard résumé everyone else is using.
Put a small picture portrait on your résumé. You will stand out.
A good story filled, inspiring biography that happens to be your résumé will continue to keep your reader intrigued.
Now you can meet your reader in your interview, if there is no interview don't feel bad, since writing about yourself is something you enjoy anyway!
That's right---every job application deserves a fresh and unique cover letter and resume. It is the only way you can show your seriousness and dedication in applying for that job.
But to write such tailored-perfect cover letter and résumé requires research on the organization you are applying job to. Think of it as a college research paper---find out everything about that organization. Its history, founder, achievements, CEO bio, everything. Then relate yourself to your research of that organization.
By the time the interview comes, you are already prepared---most other applicants are not likely as prepared because chances are they didn't write about themselves that much, they didn't do a college paper research on that organization and they couldn't relate themselves to the organization, not as well as you did.
So in the interview, you already know what you are going to say, you know so much about information related to the organization, and you know yourself so well because you write about yourself so often.

Try this method.
Use your creativity and write it up! Don't forget your picture on résumé!

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